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A 4 page paper which examines how the story illustrates that both good and evil must exist in humanity. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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both good and evil. His final morality play, Billy Budd, Sailor, was first published in 1891, and was perhaps Melvilles most powerful "allegorical conflict between good and evil" (Yoder
98). For Melville, the clash between good and evil was not only inevitable but was absolutely necessary for humanity to maintain any type of harmonious balance. This conflict
was reflected in three crewmembers of the British Navys warship, H.M.S. Bellipotent - Sailor William "Billy" Budd, Master-of-Arms John Claggart, and Captain Edward Fairfax Vere. These men not only
symbolize the opposing forces of good and evil but also demonstrate how it cannot be a battle in which one triumphs over the other for it is the conflict itself
that keeps morality in moral check. Billy Budd personifies all that is virtuous in man. He desires to be a good sailor,
and when he is forced into joining the British Navy, he obediently does so. He soon becomes regarded by his shipmates as a kind of Christ-like evangelist, "not that
he preached to them or said or did anything in particular; but a virtue went out of him, sugaring the sour ones" (Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to
Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will do anything for Billy Budd" (2435). Billy was appalled when he witnessed
the beating of a sailor who was being punished for a naval infraction. Nobody had greater respect for the Navy than did Billy Budd, but he was, first and
foremost, a man of deep compassion for his fellow man. After seeing such a shocking attack on another human being, Billy vowed "that never through remissness would he make
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